Julia C. Smith, Psy.D.

Julia C. Smith, Psy.D. is the director of psychology training for VA North Texas and acting co-director of the DALT fellowship. She serves as the clinical director of the MH trauma services team within the Dallas VAMC, an outpatient interdisciplinary team focused on specialty and evidence based treatment for PTSD. 

The role of clinic director allows her to develop treatment programming and manage clinic logistics designed to maximize the mutual goals of excellence in quality of care, access to care, patient satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and team-level performance on various performance measures for the service. Dr. Smith is also an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Her clinical interests include assessment of symptom validity and malingering, co-occurring disorders (PTSD/SUD), exposure therapy, behavioral therapy for obsessive compulsive disorders and motivational enhancement techniques, including the role of personal values in commitment to change. Her theoretical orientation is comprised of behavioral and cognitive-behavioral approaches. Research interests include exploring novel and adjunctive treatments for PTSD, military sexual trauma, personality disorders and development of outcome measures for performance enhancement and systemic process improvement.